Hope Jahren Quotes

When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.

As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.

Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.

I have my belief structure, and it's very important to me, but people start associating that with you, and you become that. I want to be judged for my work.

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

There's nothing I can control about how people see me as a person, but I can control how they think of me as an actor.

I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.

When I started working with Maryse is when I really felt like people can start to see what I stand for and who I am.

I want to be known for the work I've done, as opposed to where I go on Saturday nights.

From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic moment of the death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer? That of a horse-jockey, a fox-hunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights?

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

I think of myself as a human being first and foremost, and secondly as a person whose profession is acting. If people want to make that into something more or less, that's up to them.

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.

I'm not really a movie star. No matter what I do in acting, whether I'm good, how much work I get, whatever, I never will be a movie star. Because I never think of myself as one. You are a movie star because you think of yourself as a movie star and always have.

Only think of my being alive with a reputation!

It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.

Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.

I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.

I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

The intention of showing myself to the world has always been to be how I want to be and how I'm comfortable in the world, never to be anonymous. Right now, I'm just going with my instincts, and this is what I feel like doing. I'm always honest in what I put across.

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.